The LEAP 2018 competition challenges FIRST FRC teams to develop new technologies to engage and assist resource-poor youth in farming and agriculture, while working alongside Mercy Corps. 

Autodesk has proudly partnered with Mercy Corps and Team 1540 to support FIRST Robotics Teams designing a solution to a global challenge. LEAP was started by students of Catlin Gabel here in Portland as FIRST FRC Team 1540 Flaming Chickens. It is such a good way to connect engineering design and philanthropy and I have been so proud to be involved the past few years as a mentor with Team 1540 and their outreach programs as they are such inspiring young humans.

Learn more at: http://team1540.org/leap/

The LEAP 2018 kickoff webinar has been posted to YouTube: https://youtu.be/FkOub0m0o50

Here are some of the slides information from the kickoff yesterday. Please share if you know a FIRST FRC team that may be interested and help solve a big challenge and win some prize money for their team along the way.